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UltimaSE · June 1, 2001, 04:52 AM

Finally started reloading. I'm starting with .357 mag with some bluedot. I wanted to make sure I'm not completely missing something.

So far I've loaded 50 rounds of .357 with 158 grain rn bullet with a small pistol mag primer with 9.6 grains of blue dot behind it. OAL is 1.544 to 1.546.

Also 50 rounds of .357 with 158 grain rn bullet with a small pistol mag primer with 10.0 grains of blue dot behind it. OAL is 1.531 to 1.538.

For both of these oal I just crimped the bullet where the cannalure was on the bullet.

I intend to reload another 50 rounds of each of the load above, and then 100 rounds of the same load but with 10.4 grains of blue dot.

On to .45.
I intend to do basically the same thing for .45 acp. When I checked the sierra loading book it lists 6.1 grains of 231 as the most accurate load listed. I intend to start at 5.5 grains and load 100, 5.8 grains and load 100, and 6.0 grains and load 100. But since I have not loaded this thus far I don't have any oal number to give you.

So how am I doing? anything ring any alarm bells?

Thanks in advance,
UltimaSE

ps also anyone notice that dillon powder measure don't seem to be very accurate? I was going to just use the powder measure but when I weighed each throw I noticed that it would fall over a .1 to .3 range difference. But then again this is with blue dot and I understand that it has some metering problems.

June 1, 2001, 04:52 AM	#1
UltimaSE Senior Member Join Date: July 13, 2000 Posts: 141	Finally started reloading. I'm starting with .357 mag with some bluedot. I wanted to make sure I'm not completely missing something. So far I've loaded 50 rounds of .357 with 158 grain rn bullet with a small pistol mag primer with 9.6 grains of blue dot behind it. OAL is 1.544 to 1.546. Also 50 rounds of .357 with 158 grain rn bullet with a small pistol mag primer with 10.0 grains of blue dot behind it. OAL is 1.531 to 1.538. For both of these oal I just crimped the bullet where the cannalure was on the bullet. I intend to reload another 50 rounds of each of the load above, and then 100 rounds of the same load but with 10.4 grains of blue dot. On to .45. I intend to do basically the same thing for .45 acp. When I checked the sierra loading book it lists 6.1 grains of 231 as the most accurate load listed. I intend to start at 5.5 grains and load 100, 5.8 grains and load 100, and 6.0 grains and load 100. But since I have not loaded this thus far I don't have any oal number to give you. So how am I doing? anything ring any alarm bells? Thanks in advance, UltimaSE ps also anyone notice that dillon powder measure don't seem to be very accurate? I was going to just use the powder measure but when I weighed each throw I noticed that it would fall over a .1 to .3 range difference. But then again this is with blue dot and I understand that it has some metering problems.